Black and grey realism tattoo of a full moon with cratered shading above a small serif quote on a forearm, reading Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon.

Realistic moon and quote on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A detailed full moon with craters and shadowed maria is shaded in black and grey on the inner forearm, shown against pale skin. Below it, three lines of small serif text read Barn's burnt down, now I can see the moon, set in a clean, left-aligned block. The composition is centred on the moon, with a blurred, dim background of shelves and objects.

Realism Lettering Forearm Moon Quote Text Crater

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fire in Calder House started on the fourth floor, in the flat where Dorothy Finch kept her sewing machine and forty years of knitting patterns. By the time the engines came up Ashgrove Road, the east face of the tower had gone black and the lift cables were singing in the heat. Everybody got out. That was the first thing people said afterwards, and they said it so often it became the truth.

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Dorothy went to her sister's in Lowestoft with a carrier bag and a cat. The council offered her a flat on the far side of the estate, which had a view of nothing. Her grandson Terry stood in the car park the first night, kicking at ash, and he looked up because his nan had always told him the moon was a lamp someone forgot to switch off. There was no moon behind Calder House any more, only the hole where the fourth floor had been, and above it, clean and round, the moon sitting in the empty frame as if someone had hung it there for him.

He went up every evening after that, though the stairs were taped off. Sixth floor, fifth, past the scorched door of 4B. From the landing he could see the sky through the burnt windows, and he counted the stars the way she had taught him, one for each thing lost. He stopped at nineteen. Then he went down and told his nan that the moon was looking right at them now, and for once she did not argue.